Republican Group Uses Coronavirus To Boost Their Corporate Donors

“It would be one thing if Amazon had paid to rent the SGLF email list,” said Brendan Fischer, the director of federal reforms at the Campaign Legal Center, when shown a copy of that company’s promotion. “But SGLF is actually framing this as a message from SGLF itself, without giving any indication that this is an Amazon press release. It even says ‘Paid for by SGLF’ at the bottom.” The Amazon email, Fischer added, “doesn't obviously pertain to any SGLF policy or legislative issues. Is there any chance that SGLF would be blasting its email list with corporate press releases if those corporations were not funding SGLF? Probably not.”

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